Poem: Henry Longfellow
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. He attended the Portland Academy and Bowdoin College, where he matured a passion of storytelling and an enthusiasm for reading. Longfellow had the aptitude of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural charm and lyricism. Longfellow wrote on obvious themes which entice to all varieties of people. His creations are effortlessly understood; they sing their means into the knowledge of the particular who read them.
In "The arrow and the song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he uses a central metaphor to juxtapose loss and grief to friendship. In his first two stanzas, he utters about how he shoots off an arrow and soon after he loses it, and how he is not confident where it is going, and he misplaces it and he is sad, but he does not know what to do. He is perplexed, and he does not know figuratively where to look for it. But thereupon in the second stanza he talks about how he sang a song and it was lost, and he was said, but he says "For who has sight so keen and strong, /That it can follow the flight of a song?” He is extremely depressed that he has lost the song, and he is confused again with the song as he was with the arrow. This poem’s tone is joyous and venerated. The poet is making an analogy, draw a parallel between the arrow to real life, and the song to feeling.
The "arrow" and the "song" began with the poet though are still things that are managed by physical aspects and are awaited recurred. He is talking about elements and hopes. An arrow’s meaning depends upon the intention of the shooter. It can mean fulfilling something valuable to the shooter, or it can imply to impose harm to something or to someone; , but in the poem the shooter’s goal was to hurt nobody. And when it was found intact in an oak tree, it signifies nobody got hurt except the oak tree. Nevertheless, an arrow, like a gossip, can hurt and damage someone through of the
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. He attended the Portland Academy and Bowdoin College, where he matured a passion of storytelling and an enthusiasm for reading. Longfellow had the aptitude of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural charm and lyricism. Longfellow wrote on obvious themes which entice to all varieties of people. His creations are effortlessly understood; they sing their means into the knowledge of the particular who read them.
In "The arrow and the song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he uses a central metaphor to juxtapose loss and grief to friendship. In his first two stanzas, he utters about how he shoots off an arrow and soon after he loses it, and how he is not confident where it is going, and he misplaces it and he is sad, but he does not know what to do. He is perplexed, and he does not know figuratively where to look for it. But thereupon in the second stanza he talks about how he sang a song and it was lost, and he was said, but he says "For who has sight so keen and strong, /That it can follow the flight of a song?” He is extremely depressed that he has lost the song, and he is confused again with the song as he was with the arrow. This poem’s tone is joyous and venerated. The poet is making an analogy, draw a parallel between the arrow to real life, and the song to feeling.
The "arrow" and the "song" began with the poet though are still things that are managed by physical aspects and are awaited recurred. He is talking about elements and hopes. An arrow’s meaning depends upon the intention of the shooter. It can mean fulfilling something valuable to the shooter, or it can imply to impose harm to something or to someone; , but in the poem the shooter’s goal was to hurt nobody. And when it was found intact in an oak tree, it signifies nobody got hurt except the oak tree. Nevertheless, an arrow, like a gossip, can hurt and damage someone through of the
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